Ministers
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Ministers’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Ezekiel 3:17 OT
“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
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Ezekiel 3:18 OT
When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
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What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
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For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
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For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
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I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
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I thank my God whenever I remember you,
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For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,
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Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
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But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you, for this cause, brothers, we were comforted…
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Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
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If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
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For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
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1 Peter 5:4 NT
When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
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His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They…
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Titus 1:10 NT
For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
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Titus 1:11 NT
whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
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John 10:12 NT
He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
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They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.
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Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
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Micah 3:11 OT
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
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2 Peter 2:3 NT
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
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But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the…
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But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it, and in…